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Rationality
Epistemology
Statistics
Cognitive bias
Scope neglect
Optimizer's curse
Bayesian epistemology
Giving and happiness
Thinking at the margin
Conflict theory vs. mistake theory
Bayes' Theorem
20 posts
Epistemic deference
Independent impression
79
Beware frictions from altruistic value differences
Magnus Vinding
19d
6
142
Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)
Lizka
2mo
14
45
Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority
Scott Garrabrant
28d
2
11
The Last Temptation of Christ (Alexander, 2012)
Will Aldred
11d
1
29
The Geometric Expectation
Scott Garrabrant
27d
0
25
Geometric Exploration, Arithmetic Exploitation
Scott Garrabrant
26d
0
26
Critically Engaging with Long Articles
Elliot Temple
1mo
2
158
Global health is important for the epistemic foundations of EA, even for longtermists
Owen Cotton-Barratt
6mo
16
46
Scout Mindset Poster
Anthony Fleming
2mo
8
41
A peek at pairwise preference estimation in economics, marketing, and statistics
Jonas Moss
2mo
5
42
Estimating value from pairwise comparisons
Jonas Moss
2mo
3
107
Limits to Legibility
Jan_Kulveit
5mo
3
239
Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives
Ozzie Gooen
1y
57
84
Probability distributions of Cost-Effectiveness can be misleading
Lorenzo Buonanno
5mo
52
146
EA should blurt
RobBensinger
28d
26
128
When reporting AI timelines, be clear who you're (not) deferring to
Sam Clarke
2mo
20
134
Deference Culture in EA
Joey
6mo
23
118
Deferring
Owen Cotton-Barratt
7mo
40
139
Independent impressions
MichaelA
1y
7
12
When should you defer to expertise? A useful heuristic
Sharmake
2mo
2
134
Some thoughts on deference and inside-view models
Buck
2y
31
76
"Good judgement" and its components
Owen Cotton-Barratt
2y
11
110
In defence of epistemic modesty
Gregory Lewis
5y
49
42
Judgement as a key need in EA
Benjamin_Todd
2y
16
15
Epistemic trespassing, or epistemic squatting? | Noahpinion
BrownHairedEevee
1y
1
29
EA reading list: cluelessness and epistemic modesty
richard_ngo
2y
3
25
I knew a bit about misinformation and fact-checking in 2017. AMA, if you're really desperate.
MichaelA
2y
17
28
Inadequacy and Modesty
EliezerYudkowsky
5y
30